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Brock Harbour Lighthouse on a stormy day, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK. The Lighthouse on a Stormy Day It`s is easy to think of lighthouses occupy scenic or even spectacular coastal locations: because that is what visitors tend to see when travelling around Scotland. It is all too easy to forget that the buildings are only the means to an end, a way of carrying a mechanism that can transmit beams of light out to sea to warn seafarers of dangerous areas of coastline or simply help them locate their position more effectively. Lighthouses are all about light. It is therefore highly fitting that the museum is also all about light. From your first encounter with full-size lighthouse lenses on the ground floor and through much of the rest of the building, moving beams of light illuminate many of the items on view. Fraserburgh is on the Northwest side of Scotland. It is one of the bigger Fishing Harbours in Scotland. Founded in the 16th century as Faithlie, ‘The Broch’ became Fraserburgh in 1601. Broch is a variation of the word ‘burgh’. Traditionally known as a fishing port,